The Importance of Sleep

One of the most important things we can do for our health is to get sleep. Many o us burn the candle a bit to long and never seem to get enough sleep. Sleep is as important as eating healthy and exercising for your overall healthy life. Thus sleep can be seen as a nature healer.

Many of us, including myself, do not get enough quality sleep. Because of this there are ways that our bodies often suffer. A few of these ways include:

• Being sick more often ==== without enough sleep can impair the immune system leaving you unable to fight off infection. 
• inability to cope with the pressures of the day. ===== without sleep stress hormones of cortisol and adrenaline build up causing ill effects
• weight gain ==== poor sleep habits are closely related with weight gain. The reason is that without enough sleep the hormone responsible for weight control can not be normalized. 
• memory issues === not reaching the level of deep sleep affects how nerve cells of the brain connect brain control behavior to the ability to learn or remember
• health risks === heart disease and strokes are very much related to not getting enough sleep Not getting enough sleep has shown to provide a greater risk of heart disease or strokes than others who get the recommended sleep. 

With all these reasons to get enough sleep I believe I will offer you a good = night and allow you to go rest. If not now then hopefully soon you will be able to get a bit of shut eye.

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